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(ASHINGTON '4P) - The 5 Department, as instructed . Senate panel, will study a [jst by a civil rights leader from ji Carolina for a federal probe whether the FBI selectively black public officials, ijliam- Gibsen, ■■ state-president- d chairman of the NAACP, the state convention in he wanted a "complete stigation into allegations of a standing FBI policy of ising and investigating black ' officials without probable In particular, he cited the probe of the South Carolina islature which has led to iption charges against nine jakers and drug charges ist a tenth legislator and a fist. jr of those indicted for selling vote for cash are black. Threr members of the Legislative t Caucus have been named by Attorney Bart Daniel at spirators" in a scheme to gei >y for their votes. The three ilier hurch Role Sought In inding Adoptive Parents enate Panel Enlists Justice epartment’s Aid In South Carolina ThE Of Soul Searching. have not been charged in "Operation Lost Trust." Also, another black state legislatoi has been questioned by federal agents but has not been charged or named as a conspirator. There were 21 black membere of the Legislature when the undercover operation began in 1989. Gibson said Friday he was "disappointed" the Senate Judiciary Committee decided to refefi the matter to the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility rather than conduct its own investigation. "You don’t go to the fox when you’re trying to find out who took the chickens out of the henhouse," he said, noting that the Office of Professional Responsibility and the FBI are both within the Justice Department. On Sept. 27, Gibson wrote committee chairman Joseph Biden, D-Del., asking the panel to investigate whether there is truth to an allegation that the FBI has an RFOLK (AP) - Workshops at reducing the number of children in foster care drew of clergymen and state jls to St. John’s A.M.E. h last weekend. involvement of the men is intended to overcome finding mistrust that has iraged black families from icing government-run m programs, supporters of on say. inia officials say they have lope of placing the growing if black children with black without a bridge between option agencies and those s. ick ministers have always le key person in getting the e to families," said Helen hire, coordinator »of the lops. "They are respected, re great communicators to :k community." About 6,000 j in Virginia are in foster bout 800 are legally ready ption, and more than half of e black. Many are disabled ty emotional scars from ! to increase adoptions of children are focusing on more black families willing and reducing the dropout if 85 percent among [ive families families quit the adoption because the screening lots of red tape and ICS appears callous, say it bluntly," said the corge Clements, a black clergyman from Chicago, feel social workers are to do a job. With i, they know they are doing of altruistic motives." s developed the highly il One Church, One Child in which churches set a finding one family in the ition to adopt a child. Ihe program was brought to five years ago, about 400 botches have joined the M progress has been slow ccause of limited budgets. livist archers es, Free cs Who •orted ederacy OTTESVILLE, Va. tAP) ersity archivist who is book on the role of black in the Civil War says i''es and free blacks lie Confederacy. Jordan Jr. of the of Virginia says he •o 25 percent of the Macks and as many as of its slaves backed the I860, Virginia had a of about 1.6 million, 490,000 slaves and Macks. , ■I'ts is going to be ■ol, but I have the said Jordan, 36, one of black srhoifli-o who is blued On Page 4) "They’re really just getting started," said Clements, whose One Church, One Child program has spread to nearly 40 states. Nationwide, the program has found homes for 11,500 black children in the past 10 years, he said. The state program, run by the Rev. Wilbert Talley, a pastor and adoptive parent in King William County, was awarded a $118,000 grant of federal and state funds on Sept. 30. The program intends to conduct a publicity campaign to attract potential adoptive parents and to have seminars to train social workers to be more sensitive when interviewing prospective parents. unwritten policy of targeting black officials. An FBI informant, in court 'doeuments-filed-ffl a Georgia case, alleged the FBI selectively prosecutes black public officials. He said the policy is called Fruhmenschen after the German word meaning "primitive man." Some black leaders have seized upon the allegation to try to show that black politicians have been victims of a racist plot by federal investigators and prosecutors. Daniel denied that race was a factor in the investigation, which he said crossed racial and political lines. An FBI spokesman refused to comment on the possible existence of "Fruhmenschen," saying, "We don’t make a public debate of this." Judiciary Committee spokesman Joel Feyerherm said Friday the panel had referred Gibson’s request to the Office of Professional Responsibility, as it has done with other, similar letters about the Fruhmenschen" allegation. Feyerherm said the committee is confident the office will fairly investigate the matter. The Office of Professional KesponsiDiuty has shown itself to ’e very independent in the past. We .ertainly don’t take everything to them and refer the matter and forget about it. But they are a pretty reliable source," he said. But Gibson called the Judiciary Committee’s action "definitely inadequate." Gibson said he had no proof that federal agents in the South Carolina sting operation targeted blacks. But he said the "reality" is that the committee has access to the documents that would prove or disprove his theory. Gibson accused the committee of "abdicating its responsibility" as an oversight panel. "I am really a little disappointed in the leadership of that particular committee, because prior to this I had a little more respect for Mr. Biden and the leadership of this committee," he said. ’Martin Cogfba'^ji'tHc. essence of rare Fren'cli wine; the sbuj of wine from Martell’s finest vineyards. 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